Biography:Pan Hui

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Pan Hui
Hui in 2020
Alma materUniversity of Hong Kong (B.Eng., M.Phil.)
University of Cambridge (PhD 2008)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMobile computing
Networking
Augmented reality
Data science
InstitutionsUniversity of Helsinki
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
ThesisPeople are the network: experimental design and evaluation of social-based forwarding algorithms (2008)
Doctoral advisorJon Crowcroft[2]

Pan Hui (Chinese: 許彬[3]) is a computer scientist specializing in mobile computing, networking, augmented reality and data science. He received B.Eng. and M.Phil. degrees from the University of Hong Kong and a PhD in 2008 from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. He holds the Nokia Chair in Data Science and is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki. He also holds professorships at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where he directs the Center for Metaverse and Computational Creativity. He was an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2016, elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2018,[4] is a member of the Academia Europaea,[5] and became an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2020.[6]

Research

Hui holds the Nokia Chair in Data Science at the University of Helsinki, a professorship established through a Nokia Bell Labs Endowment.[7] His research includes the metaverse and mobile augmented reality. His work on augmented reality contributed to CloudAR, an open software development kit for mobile augmented reality applications.[8] His research on AR/VR applications cover augmented driving, gesture control, social interaction, visual privacy protection, and assistive technologies for the elderly and visually impaired.[9] He leads the MetaHKUST project at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST),[10] which explores the use of extended reality (XR) in learning and infotainment.[10][11][12]

References

  1. "Prof. Pan Hui - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology". https://panhui.people.ust.hk/bio.html. 
  2. "Phd Family Tree of Jon's". https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jac22/paststudents.html. Retrieved 2 Dec 2020. 
  3. "Pan Hui (Finland)". https://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-fellowship/new-fellows-2020/international-fellows/professor-pan-hui-(finland). 
  4. "IEEE Computer Society Members Elevated to Fellow for 2018". 12 April 2018. https://www.computer.org/press-room/2017-news/cs-fellows-2018. Retrieved 7 October 2020. 
  5. "Academy of Europe: Hui Pan". https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Hui_Pan. Retrieved 7 October 2020. 
  6. "Professor Dr Pan Hui FREng (Finland)" (in en). https://raeng.org.uk/about-us/fellowship/new-fellows-2020/professor-dr-pan-hui-freng-finland/. 
  7. "Professor Pan Hui - University of Helsinki". https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/panhui/. 
  8. Zhang, Wenxiao; Lin, Sikun; Bijarbooneh, Farshid Hassani; Cheng, Hao Fei; Hui, Pan (2017-10-23). "Proceedings of the on Thematic Workshops of ACM Multimedia 2017". New York, NY, USA: ACM. pp. 194–200. doi:10.1145/3126686.3126739. ISBN 9781450354165. 
  9. Lee, Lik-Hang; Braud, Tristan; Hosio, Simo; Hui, Pan (2021-10-04). "Towards Augmented Reality Driven Human-City Interaction: Current Research on Mobile Headsets and Future Challenges". ACM Computing Surveys 54 (8): 1–38. doi:10.1145/3467963. ISSN 0360-0300. https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3467963. 
  10. 10.0 10.1 "HKUST to Launch World's First Twin Campuses in Metaverse | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology". https://hkust.edu.hk/news/research-and-innovation/hkust-launch-worlds-first-twin-campuses-metaverse. 
  11. "Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to launch virtual reality class" (in en). 2022-07-28. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3186907/class-its-own-hong-kong-university-science-and-technology. 
  12. Dargan, James (2022-08-07). "Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to Open The World's First Twin Campuses in The Metaverse" (in en-US). https://metaverseinsider.tech/2022/08/07/hong-kong-university-science-and-technology-to-open-the-worlds-first-twin-campuses-in-the-metaverse/.